which I wrote for that paper
whilst I was in India last winter, and also to the Royal Society of Arts
for permission to reproduce the main portions of a lecture delivered by
me last year on Hinduism as the first of the Memorial Lectures
instituted in honour of the late Sir George Birdwood, to whom I owe as
much for the deeper understanding which he gave me of old India as I do
to the late Mr. G.K. Gokhale for the clearer insight I gained from him
into the spirit of new India whilst we were colleagues from 1912 to 1915
on the Royal Commission on Indian Public Services.

VALENTINE CHIROL.

34 CARLYLE SQUARE, CHELSEA,
_August 24, 1921._

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I
THE CLASH OF TWO CIVILISATIONS 1

CHAPTER II
THE ENDURING POWER OF HINDUISM 15

CHAPTER III
MAHOMEDAN DOMINATION 46

CHAPTER IV
BRITISH RULE UNDER THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 66

CHAPTER V
THE MUTINY AND FIFTY YEARS AFTER 84

CHAPTER VI
THE FIRST GREAT WAVE OF UNREST 111

CHAPTER VII
THE MORLEY-MINTO REFORMS 125

CHAPTER VIII
THROUGH THE GREAT WAR TO THE GREAT INDIAN REFORM BILL 139

CHAPTER IX
THE EMERGENCE OF MR. GANDHI 165

CHAPTER X
SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE ELECTIONS 193

CHAPTER XI
CROSS CURRENTS IN SOUTHERN INDIA 214

CHAPTER XII
THE BIRTH OF AN INDIAN PARLIAMENT 227

CHAPTER XIII
ECONOMIC FACTORS 246

CHAPTER XIV
SHOALS AND ROCKS AHEAD 268

CHAPTER XV
THE INCLINED PLANE OF GANDHIISM 286

CHAPTER XVI
THE INDIAN PROBLEM A WORLD PROBLEM 299

INDEX 311

CHAPTER I

THE CLASH OF TWO CIVILISATIONS

On February 9, 1921, three hundred and twenty-one years after Queen
Elizabeth granted to her trusty "Merchant-venturers" of London the
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